Laminated fabric



M. HIBSHFIELD.

LAMINATED FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.-a, 192|.

Patented Fem, 192:2.

'amants masi-miennes BROOKLYN, NEW *renink 'LAMINATED FABRIC. l

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fued March-3, 17921. sending-149,420.1' j,

To all whom it may concern Be' it known that l, Morris Hmsiarrnitn,

a citizen of theUnited States, and resident of the .borough of Brooklyn, county f Kings, city and State of New York, have l invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Laminated Fabrics, of which the following is a specication. Y

My invention relates to foot-wear and more particularly to slippers, and has for Q its object to provide said -slippers with a gether.

border which, in addition to the decorative effect produced thereby, will add to the structural stability of the slipper. The particular purpose of the invention is to provide a border of silk or velvet or other woven material constructed in a novel manner lso as to prevent ravelling of the edges and thereby avoiding the necessityfor binding of any kind and making itrpossible to utilize the selected material with raw edges. The Vinvention will be fully described hereinafter and the features of novelty'will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate examples of my invention without defining its limits, Figure 1 is a face view of the border prior to incorporation in the slipper; Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof; Fig. 3 is aV sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1; and Figs. 4 and 5 are elevations of a slipper illustrating two diierent types of border.

As shown in the drawings, the border comprises a composite material consisting of a facing of woven fabric 10 such as silk or satin, and a backing of pressed or other non-woven fabric 11 such as felt or other fibrous material. The fabrics 10 and 11 are united preferably by means of a rubber cement 12 in the presence of heat which maybe applied either through the medium of an ordinary sad iron or by passing the combined fabrics and the cement between heated rolls and whereby the facing and the backing may be said to be vulcanized to- After the 'border has been prepared, it may be cut into the required form, for instance as shown in Fig. 1, and may then be attached to the Vslipper 13, for instance, along the edge of the opening there- 0f, as shown in Fig. 4 or, if the slipper includes a tongue, the border may also extend Yalong the edge ofthe tongue, as shown in Fig. 5. The fabric 10 may be either plain,

i Patented Feb. '7/,jf19`22f i as. shown in Fig. l, or ornamented, ,for

stance as shown in F ig.V 4;, or it may be slitl periodically, as indi'catedfat 14'i'n Figf, in ywhich case aribbon 15 may be'threa'ded' through the slits to enhance the ornamental effect of the border and to give the same a distinctive appearance, as illustrated in said F ig. 5. The border may be attached to thev slipper in any suitable manner, preferably by sewing the same thereto by lines of stitching 16, as indicated/ Y n The felt kor other fibrous` or non-woven material 11 becomes firmly united to the silk, .satin or other woven fabric 10 by means Vof the cement 12 under the application of heat and serves to prevent the ravelling vof the fabric 10 at the edges, thus `d0- ing away with the necessity for binding of any kind or for any other special means .whereby theraw edge ofthe -fabric'lO is generally finished to prevent said ravelling.y -At'the same time, the felt v11` in combination with the cement 12 stiffens the fabric Y 10 to such an eXtentfor, in other words, givesthel same sufficient body to make it possible to easily cut the same in any shape by means of suitable cutting dies of the desired form. The border may have any contour desired'or predetermined by the type of ornamentation it is desired to incorpo-Y rate in the slipper, and may be placed in locations ythereon other than those illustrated in the drawings; when located as tions as an ornamental border, also increases the structural stability of the slipper along the edge thereof whichV very often has a tendencyto collapse because of the inherent flexibilityfof the material of which the slipper is constructed As shown in Fig. 5, the border may be combined with otherl material such as ribbonto impart a distinctive and highly ornamental appearance t0 the slipper.

rlhe invention is particularlyadapted to slippers constructed of felt 0r similar material and commonly known as bedroom slippers, although it is not limited to this use and may be adapted to slippers of other material and even to .foot-Wear kother than slippers. v

lt is, of course, obvious that any formof adhesive may be used that will fasten the two parts together so that ravell'ingwill not occur, and therefore the term-cement .is

used iny its broadest sense to include any adhesives that Will produce this result, in the absence of any better generic term.

Various changes in the speciic forms shown and described may be made Within the scope of the claims Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

l claim: y l. A fabric comprising a facing of Woven material of the silk type liable to ravel along vcut edges, and a coeXtensive backing of non- Woven material cemented to said facing to prevent ravelling r` thereof along said cut edges.

2. A fabric comprising a facing of Woven material of the silk type liable to ravel along cut edges and a backing of felt vulcanized to said fabric by rubber cement to prevent ravelling of said facing along said edges.

3. A fabric comprising a facing of velvet liable to ravel along cut edges and a backing of felt attached to said facing by'cement to prevent ravelling of said facing along said cut edges. Y

In testimonypwhereof I have hereunto set my hand.

Monnis Hinsiiriaiin. 

